Hogwarts Legacy

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7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1764 Ratings

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  1. KenNgan
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    The game lives up to the hype!!! It’s pretty well done considering the ginormous size of it the game plays well on a decent PC with little issues surprisingly, just the occasional stuttering which does not affect gameplay at all! Really well done to Warner bros and Avalanche. We need more games like these! Truly a Game of The Year contender for 2023 for sure!!!! Ignore the woke activistsThe game lives up to the hype!!! It’s pretty well done considering the ginormous size of it the game plays well on a decent PC with little issues surprisingly, just the occasional stuttering which does not affect gameplay at all! Really well done to Warner bros and Avalanche. We need more games like these! Truly a Game of The Year contender for 2023 for sure!!!! Ignore the woke activists comments and ratings,too. True gamers just appreciate good games and it’s fair to point them out to fellow gamers.… Expand
  2. CosmicScarab
    Feb 10, 2023
    0
    Runs like trash on even the highest end hardware once you get past a certain point.
  3. redwindsor
    Feb 10, 2023
    9
    Is this game the best RPG ever made? No. But it's fun and it does a good job of capturing some of what made the series itself fun. There's going to be review bombing on both sides of the aisle from this game, so it pretty much follows the same line of logic you have to follow for every game or movie with a widely publicized release: ignore the user score, read specific reviews fromIs this game the best RPG ever made? No. But it's fun and it does a good job of capturing some of what made the series itself fun. There's going to be review bombing on both sides of the aisle from this game, so it pretty much follows the same line of logic you have to follow for every game or movie with a widely publicized release: ignore the user score, read specific reviews from reviewers you already trust to be honest and forthright with you.

    The strongest parts of the game are arguably the setting (perhaps unsurprisingly), and the combat which is fairly fun. If I had to compare the game to anything, I'd say it feels a little like Fallen Order, but in the Harry Potter world. Unfortunately, as an AAA release, there are also an unusual amount of bugs. Some were fixed by the day one patch, while some haven't been. A strange one to provide as an example is that if you adjust the pitch of the characters voice at all, it causes them to have an oddly robotic tone.

    If you aren't already interested in Harry Potter, then you should probably take a pass on this game. If you are interested in Harry Potter, you'll have a lot of fun. Again, I'd put it in a similar boat to Fallen Order with that particular line of logic.

    No, the game doesn't deserve the hate it's getting from one side, nor does it do the game any benefit to be promoted by reactionaries or trolls on the other side. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, and if you're worried about where your money is going -- this game is probably going to benefit the author less than the Fantastic Beasts movies, which didn't draw nearly as much of a reaction, or ticket sales at Universal Studios, which also haven't drawn a reaction.

    If you want a fun Harry Potter game to play, this is probably the best one since the old PS2/Xbox Chamber of Secrets game.    … Expand
  4. Joeviv
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    Awesome, amazing, genre defining. Truly enjoy the castle, the hunt for hidden collectibles, the combat the spells, the characters, everything! It's a masterpiece.
  5. mustbenargles
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    A love letter to the fans... if you love the Harry Potter universe, you will absolutely LOVE THIS GAME!
  6. Creeps
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    Game runs great on my system. The world is absolutely beautiful I've loved every second. Seriously can't put the game down.
  7. censure
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    It's *fantastically* fun on it's own merits as an open world adventure game with probably *the* best spell slinging we've ever seen in a video game *ever*... but it's the clear respect for the source material (that still manages to chip away at the several problematic aspects of an aging IP) that has me really impressed. The developers threaded the needle, so to speak, magnificently.It's *fantastically* fun on it's own merits as an open world adventure game with probably *the* best spell slinging we've ever seen in a video game *ever*... but it's the clear respect for the source material (that still manages to chip away at the several problematic aspects of an aging IP) that has me really impressed. The developers threaded the needle, so to speak, magnificently.

    It's not only a *necessary* recommend to anyone even moderately fond of the Harry Potter universe but also a strong recommend to anyone that likes video games (full stop). Everyone directly involved in the creation of this game deserves every accolade we can give them so they can continue to make great games like this.    … Expand
  8. Shadow-Dragon
    Feb 10, 2023
    9
    I'm not a Harry Potter fan, though I do like it to some extent. This game however I was really excited for. I thought I might have been hyped too much, but in the end for me at least it blew me away. I have enjoyed every bit of it. I have not beaten it yet and it will probably still be a while before that happens, but from what I have played there is little complaints.
    I would say the    I'm not a Harry Potter fan, though I do like it to some extent. This game however I was really excited for. I thought I might have been hyped too much, but in the end for me at least it blew me away. I have enjoyed every bit of it. I have not beaten it yet and it will probably still be a while before that happens, but from what I have played there is little complaints.
    I would say the story so far is decent. Gameplay is really good,. Its challenging and the spells are fun to use. The world is absolutely gorgeous and immersive to the Harry Potter world. Map is well laid out and easy to understand.

    Complaints so far.
    1. Character creator looks like you can do a good bit until you start messing with them and you're not really changing a whole lot. And the voice pitch is awful there is no reason to change it because your voice will sound weird like a robot or something.
    2. When you go through a lot of doors it has like a slight load stops you at the door but can be a little annoying, it's way better than a full-on loading screen though.

    Steam deck fully compatible.
    Because it's all your graphical settings on low for default, and definitely still takes a hit on performance.
    It's definitely playable on it, I have no idea what kind of miracle they're going to have to pull off to get this to work on the Nintendo Switch though. But that's for another review when it comes out.    … Expand
  9. szeffffff14
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    It’s like u being in this world and watching a long Harry Potter movie! Amazing taternikom to detail and you feel that you are in world with magic! Amazing!!!
  10. jsmith1972
    Feb 10, 2023
    0
    Just like Callisto Protocol and Witcher 3 Next Gen this game has serious issues with CPU overhead/bottleneck in certain areas of the game especially with RT enabled causing GPU utilization and in turn frame rate to nose dive. I do not consider this in any way shape or form acceptable and the fact that pretty much every new pc release has been plagued with this issue is a joke. If you haveJust like Callisto Protocol and Witcher 3 Next Gen this game has serious issues with CPU overhead/bottleneck in certain areas of the game especially with RT enabled causing GPU utilization and in turn frame rate to nose dive. I do not consider this in any way shape or form acceptable and the fact that pretty much every new pc release has been plagued with this issue is a joke. If you have a 40 series card you can use the frame generator to help alleviate the problem but what percentage of players have access to one of these cards? Devs need to step up their game and fix this piece of ****… Expand
  11. LucvdM
    Feb 10, 2023
    9
    Yer a wizard, Harry! This game is quite honestly the biggest surprise of the year so far. Cyberpunk 2077 has taught me that when a game seems too good to be true, it probably is. So imagine my surprise when I was 8 hours into Hogwarts Legacy and realized the game was exactly what I hoped for, and more. This game truly does live up to the hype!
    I would have given it a 10/10 but sadly I had    Yer a wizard, Harry! This game is quite honestly the biggest surprise of the year so far. Cyberpunk 2077 has taught me that when a game seems too good to be true, it probably is. So imagine my surprise when I was 8 hours into Hogwarts Legacy and realized the game was exactly what I hoped for, and more. This game truly does live up to the hype!
    I would have given it a 10/10 but sadly I had to deduct a point for the fact that even after the day 1 patch, the performance of the game isn't exactly great. I'm playing the game on an RTX 4080 with a Ryzen 7 5800X and 32GB of RAM, on a 4k monitor, and even with DLSS set to Balanced and DLSS frame generation turned on I would get unacceptably low framerates when traveling through the castle, which seemed to get worse over time. Restarting the game helped minimize this, which makes me believe the game must be suffering a memory leak. I hope this will get patched soon so I can give this game a 10/10!    … Expand
  12. lunarit
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    AMAZING, the love and care from the developers is just amazing, the game is everything we wanted
  13. TomoyoSoup
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    Complete package!

    I bought the special edition version and got early access, and I can say this game has it all: story, graphics, nostalgia, and more! Honestly, it's been a welcome breath of fresh air, and I'm only 10 hours in!
  14. joanjett
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    This game really brings back the Harry Potter vibes for me
    but it does so much more. You don't need to be a Potter fan
    to enjoy this gem! Get ready for at least 80hrs or more of game play fun!
  15. JumpingJack99
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    Outstanding game!!! Highly recommended to anyone who wants an immersive experience in the the magical world of Harry Potter.
  16. AsboXFlemzo
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    Greatest game ever created, wow must buy game of the year contender that has hundreds of hours of gameplay
  17. colemarisa
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    Loved it. Loved the choices of what the character and dark can look like. Beautiful open world. Im replaying it again.
    I especially loved when the thestrals appeared. NICE TOUCH!
  18. Onixus
    Feb 10, 2023
    2
    Сыро.
    Интерфейс для ПК и схема управления - ущербны более чем. Создается впечатление что играешь в мобильную помойку, при этом каст скилов через цифры 1/2/3/4 - а дальше? Заклинаний много, а слотов 4. При этом в схеме управления на гейпаде это ограничение понятно. Часть интерфейса сделана под мышь, но игра явно точилась под геймпад.
    Техническая часть: Ну тут даже не оптимизация, а    Сыро.
    Интерфейс для ПК и схема управления - ущербны более чем. Создается впечатление что играешь в мобильную помойку, при этом каст скилов через цифры 1/2/3/4 - а дальше? Заклинаний много, а слотов 4. При этом в схеме управления на гейпаде это ограничение понятно. Часть интерфейса сделана под мышь, но игра явно точилась под геймпад.
    Техническая часть:
    Ну тут даже не оптимизация, а просто кривущие руки разрабов, похоже индусы-джуны писали код.
    1440р
    RTX 4080 - 60% утилизации
    Ryzen 3900x - 25% утилизации
    RTX + DLAA - on
    DLSS - off
    70-80 FPS в городе, при этом в хогвартсе около 100 FPS и загрузка видеокарты. Игра тупо не хочет использовать ресурсы ПК
    Подгрузки у дверей в хогвартсе - а зачем тогда ResizibleBAR я включал?
    RTX - это сказка, отражения зеркала - мыло мыльное, а при использовании фонарика новые тени не появляются, кстати в игре про магию с кастом огня от огня нет новых теней, даже от костров и факелов не всегда бывают тени.
    И вишенка на торте первые 2 часа это унылое обучение, первые локации сильно ограничены что бы выдать картинку хоть как-то похожую на игру, а дальше у вас заканчивается время на возврат и игра проседает.
    К 15 часу игры я получил гипогрифа и метлу, т.е. вот бонус за предзаказ я увидел через 15 часов. Но крафт и фарм ингридиентов в реальном времени м... Как вам 25 ждать ингредиентов на улучшения шмота? ТЗ у разрабов было явное: Игра на 60+ часов

    В игре никто не хочет пояснить за мир, за сюжет, почему я на 5 курсе попадаю в школу, что там за баллы и что они дают, почему я с самого начала умею кастовать с палкой, но меня посылают за новой палкой, почему гоблин кастует с руки без палки? При этом игра на каждое действие пихает активно обучение, затягивая попадание в неоптимизированные локации.    … Expand
  19. el_miguel42
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    Excellent game, perfect if you are a Harry Potter fan. I personally havent had any performance issues, so do bear that in mind if you're going to buy. However, for me its a 10/10. I really hope to see some DLC and a sequel.
  20. ryderrr
    Feb 10, 2023
    0
    Diversity, wokism all over the place as always. Lame optimization, performance. Gameplay boring quickly, dead world, dead game. Better go read the original books and watch the movies. Such sh*t show.
  21. MainOp
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    this game is something special to wizarding fans and im just in love with this game, every enemy feels different with what spells are weaker to them and then the amor upgrades are just as useful along with potions, very interesting charecters that u can connect with. this game is a dream come true.
  22. Pumpsky
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Stunningly beautiful! The Hogwarts I always wanted! Mystery, intrigue, and lots of action. What a great game!… Expand
  23. Footler420
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    Great game, despite what certain...humans tried to tell us. Flashy, fluid combat, lovely characters and story, but the real selling point is the immersion. You WILL be lost in the world, forgetting your original goal, just wandering in a beautiful world.

    Overall a passionate love letter to the work of Rowling. It's rare nowadays.
  24. WePunchDragons
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    I am an avid RPG enthusiast. I spend hundreds and hundreds of hours in every title I chose to play. I dive deeply into mechanics, lore, and gameplay to understand an RPG to its DNA. Just from my steam list alone, I can attribute well over 10,000 hours playing just RPG games since I first found Mass Effect and fell in love with the RPG genre.

    With that said, you can believe me when I say    I am an avid RPG enthusiast. I spend hundreds and hundreds of hours in every title I chose to play. I dive deeply into mechanics, lore, and gameplay to understand an RPG to its DNA. Just from my steam list alone, I can attribute well over 10,000 hours playing just RPG games since I first found Mass Effect and fell in love with the RPG genre.

    With that said, you can believe me when I say that this game is easily one of the VERY best RPG experiences I have ever had. From the combat to the way it immerses you in the Wizarding World through relationships and stories, this game nails it.

    It is not perfect, but it is very close.

    Howgart's Legacy keeps you moving by always giving you new things to see and do (something many open-world games struggle to do these days,) and it does it all with that flare and style we loved from the Harry Potter movies. In my 35 hours so far, I have not felt the game become stale even once! It is always surprising me and teaching me new things. The story can look generic from the outside, but experiencing it with its nuances does so much to elevate what is essentially a very tropic story, to almost masterpiece levels of presentation.

    However, I want to be honest and so we have to talk about the few issues that the game does have. It IS plagued with some performance issues, but nothing that we haven't seen on a launch title before. Some frame rate issues and poorly implemented ray trancing seem to be the worse issues so far. I have also seen some other graphical anomalies that seem to be solved with a simple reset, such as the save image becoming glitchy looking when it appears. As I'm writing the game is patching with the day one patch so we might see this fixed.    … Expand
  25. Nixvip
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    เป็นเกมที่ดี ยิ่งใครเป็นแฟน Harry Potter อยู่แล้วยิ่งห้ามพลาด
  26. GrimJesus
    Feb 10, 2023
    7
    The game is beautiful, the characters are intriguing and the story is interesting, but the performance is lackluster and leaves a lot to be desired. overall 7/10, will change to 8 if they end up fixing the performance issues but it really spoils an otherwise fantastic game.
  27. OmegaVeritas
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    Absolutely awesome! It's about time they put out a new game in the Harry Potter universe.
  28. Azeriel
    Feb 10, 2023
    10
    The ultimate Potterverse open-world RPG experience, this game just gets everything right. Great writing, extremely amazing combat, fun side activities, living breathing world and a lot of things to do to occupy your time.

    Not only that, the PC version was absolutely created with love. 0 issues, a full array of PC specific settings, and a fantastic integration of mouse and KB with    The ultimate Potterverse open-world RPG experience, this game just gets everything right. Great writing, extremely amazing combat, fun side activities, living breathing world and a lot of things to do to occupy your time.

    Not only that, the PC version was absolutely created with love. 0 issues, a full array of PC specific settings, and a fantastic integration of mouse and KB with keybindings. This game just checks all the right boxes and one if not THE best and smoothest PC launch I've had in years.

    I haven't been this immersed in a game since The Witcher 3 and I haven't seen a AAA game this smooth either. Don't sleep on this.    … Expand
  29. tarkahdok
    Feb 10, 2023
    0
    Holy moly this game has some problematic writing. It's also got Denuvo in it, which is straight up malware. Avoid.
  30. YotaXD
    Feb 10, 2023
    8
    So far an 8/10 Game
    RTX 3090 often struggles giving constant fps.
    -2 Points due to bad pc optimization but amazing graphics.
    Story is about avarage but never boring.
    Other than that its a great game and i would highly recommend this game after some updates.
    In the end, Very nice RPG Not only for Harry Potter fans.
    +2 Points since day 1 patch fixed the fps.
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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    May 4, 2023
    85
    Beautiful, cozy and incredibly detailed, Hogwarts Legacy suffers from overabundance of side activities that offer no story, substance or good gameplay. [page 42]
  2. GameSpace
    Apr 4, 2023
    80
    The success of Hogwarts Legacy clearly shows that good sales and warm feedback from players are ensured not so much by the gameplay thought out to the smallest detail but by carefully reproducing the right atmosphere. But this is already a subtle moment, akin to real magic, and here the nameless developers of Avalanche Software succeeded.
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  3. Ragequit.gr
    Feb 24, 2023
    81
    Hogwarts Legacy is an altogether excellent port of Wizarding World to PC screens. It proudly belongs to the Young Adult fiction genre, which may make immersion difficult for older gamers.
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